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1. (v.t.) swindle
to cheat out of money or other assets.
2. swindle
to obtain by fraud or deceit.
3. (v.i.) swindle
to defraud others; cheat.
4. (n.) swindle
the act of swindling or a fraudulent transaction or scheme.
5. swindle
anything deceptive; a fraud.
Etymology: (1775–85; back formation from swindler < G Schwindler cheat)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) swindle, cheat, rig
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
"that book is a fraud"
2. (verb) victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
deprive of by deceit
"He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) swindle
the act or process of swindling; a cheat
2. (verb) swindle
to cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property
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Sense: to cheat
That shopkeeper has swindled me!; He swindled me out of $4.
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 Afrikaans: verneuk |
 Arabic: يَخْدَع، يَغُش |
 Bulgarian: измамвам |
 Brazilian: burlar |
 Czech: napálit |
 German: betrügen |
 Danish: snyde; svindle |
 Greek: εξαπατώ |
 Spanish: estafar, timar |
 Estonian: tüssama |
 Farsi: گول زدن |
 Finnish: huijata |
 French: escroquer |
 Hebrew: לְרַמוֹת |
 Hindi: धोखा देना |
 Croatian: prevariti, varati |
 Hungarian: becsap |
 Indonesian: menipu |
 Icelandic: svindla |
 Italian: imbrogliare |
 Japanese: だます |
 Korean: 편취하다 |
 Lithuanian: apgauti |
 Latvian: apkrāpt; piekrāpt |
 Malay: menipu |
 Dutch: oplichten |
 Norwegian: svindle, lure |
 Polish: oszukiwać |
 Persian: گول زدن |
 Pashto: ګول وهل |
 Portuguese: burlar |
 Romanian: a escroca |
 Russian: обманывать; надувать |
 Slovak: oklamať |
 Slovenian: ogoljufati |
 Serbian: prevariti |
 Swedish: lura, svindla |
 Thai: โกง |
 Turkish: dolandırmak |
 Taiwanese: 騙取 |
 Ukrainian: обманювати, ошукувати |
 Urdu: دھوکا دینا |
 Vietnamese: lừa dảo, bịp bợm |
 Chinese: 骗取 |
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